Facelift: An $18 Million Government Website

With the government running a $1.2 trillion deficit this fiscal year, $18 million is chump change.

Taxpayers are the chumps.

There are more stories like this than any news service can track. But when we find them, we get insight into how government works when it is not being tyrannical.

There is a federal website called www.recovery.gov. It tracks the money that Obama’s stimulus spent: over $750 billion.

The Administration redesigned this site. It will cost money to run it. How much money? $18 million.

Now, that’s a stimulus!

The site was working before. No problem. But where’s the stimulus effect of that?

The Federal government paid a firm $9.5 million to redesign the site. It will pay $8.4 million more through 2014.

Why is this so expensive? Because, we are assured, there will be so much traffic.

So, I went to www.Alexa.com. It ranks sites in terms of traffic. I typed in www.Recovery.gov. I learned that the site is ranked in the top 151,400 worldwide. It is ranked 65,500 in the USA. For comparison, Google is ranked #1.

This site, www.TeaPartyEconomist.com, is ranked 83,200 worldwide and 15,500 in the USA. It has been online for about five months. It uses WordPress.org’s software, which is free. It uses a few plug-ins, which are free. This site and a dozen more like it are managed by one employee. He was an unpaid intern two months ago.

Spending by the federal government is out of control. You know it. I know it. But it will not stop. There is nothing that voters can do, or want to do, about it. They think this will go on forever. They think the bills will not come true. They are wrong.

When the bills come due, you had better not be sitting on a pile of IOUs issued by the U.S. government. That means Medicare. That means Social Security.

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Yes, that is probably so, but, social security & medicare are so often labeled by politicians as entitlements are exactly that! We are entitled to them because we a lot of us have been paying into with our FICA & Medicare deductions from our paychecks since we began working. I paid my first FICA payment when I was 14 yrs old. The government should leave SS & Medicare alone and pay back what they took from it!

Go to this website and sign the petition to vet Obama and check into his eligibility to be president. Send this to everybody on your mailing list. Ask them to do the same. We need all the signatures we can get.

The government twists everything to make it look good. Wonder who they think they're fooling anymore.

Exactly Harry. Anyone who think the money they've paid into (or pay into) either program is ACTUALLY THERE is fooling themselves! That money was sacked and taken years ago (and replaced with I.O.U.s) and continues to be to this day…same reason you have to wait for days to clear out your savings or banking account(s) from the bank, they don't HAVE it.

Well now the site tracks you. If you're looking into how the gov. is spending the money you may be considered a terrorist. However one of the procedures for taking control of a country is through ruining its economy thus waste as much money as possible on ventures that either don't work or are completely unnecessary running the national debt that much higher and eventually collapsing the value of the currency. This is simple George Soros 101